Hello! Also my impression was that not all SATA controllers suport/tolerate hot swap and simply puling disk out can damage disk and/or controller!?
Regards Andrej On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Roel_D <openindi...@out-side.nl> wrote: > Hmz, i was just typing what is written on the harddiskcages: > "non-hotswappable" > > But to be onnest, i didn't know every SATA disk was hotswappable. > > Kind regards, > > The out-side > > Op 16 okt. 2012 om 16:50 heeft Christopher Chan < > christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> het volgende geschreven: > > > Well, the existence of eSata should have been sufficient to point to > sata's builtin hot swap capabilities but ah well. > > > > On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:44 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: > >> He may not be aware of the hot-swap capabilities, he may be going by > >> the fact that they aren't in a backplane type cage, but even on their > >> own, SATA and SAS is designed to be hot-swappable. > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Christopher Chan > >> <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > >>> Er...SATA was designed to be hot swappable from the start? There is no > such > >>> thing as a non-hot swappable SATA hd. If you meant you can have 4 sata > hard > >>> disks that are inconvenient to hot swap, then that is fine. You can > however > >>> get four disk bay cages that facilitate hot swapping by allowing you > to just > >>> pull the disk out from the front while taking 3 5 1/4 bays in the case. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss